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All About Graduate Advisors, Mentors, and Professors
Professors are people too - and sometimes require special handling. Need some advice on how to deal with your advisor? Look no further. These links will help you deal with the personal (and often sticky) issues that arise in your relationship with your advisor.
Respect Student-Faculty Boundaries
Establishing close colleagial relationships with professors is critical to your professional development; however, there are many possible pitfalls.
Advisor Reality Check: Ideal vs. Real
What can you expect from your graduate advisor? Advise? Friendship? Guidance? Establish realistic expectations to get what you need from your advisor.
Should You Give Your Professor a Gift?
Should you give your professor a gift to show your appreciation?
Advisor vs. Mentor
Faculty are essential to your graduate school existence. Learn how to manage them.
Make a Good Impression on Professors
Relationships with faculty are critical to success in graduate school. The initial relationship is often formed in class. How do you make a good impression in class?
How to Approach a Professor for Help
How do you approach a professor for help? Few students make it through college and graduate school without having to seek some assistance from a professor. How do you ask for help?
Choosing a Mentor
How do you choose a mentor? What characteristics should you look for?
Take Your Advisor's Perspective
Your relationship with your advisor is important to your success in graduate school and beyond. Let's take a look at the student-advisor relationship, from the advisor's perspective.
Choosing a Graduate or Postdoc Advisor
What to look for, avoid, and how to select an advisor for your graduate or postdoctoral work
How to Be a Terrible Grad Student
What not to do and how to irritate your advisor quickly and effectively
How to Get the Mentoring You Want
An excellent detailed guide to establishing mentoring relationships. A must-read for students and advisors.
The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal
The Mentor is a free electronic journal about academic advising in higher education. It's goal is "to provide a mechanism for the rapid dissemination of new ideas about advising and for ongoing discourse about advising issues"
How to Choose an Advisor
Important questions for your consideration
What Not to Expect from Your Advisor
One of the best ways to ensure that you will be successful in graduate school is to simply be on the same page as your advisor. Of course, this is easier said than done. How do you develop realistic expectations? Consider the ideal advisor, the mentor . Then become aware of what you cannot expect from your advisor.